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Put your first tape in deck/camera and connect the Fire wire cable from the computer to the camera
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Launch Final Cut Pro
Open Log & Capture under the File menu.
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Use the controls at the bottom of the screen to find the clip/s you want to capture.
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Final Cut Pro requires a reel number for every clip captured. The default 'Reel 001 but you must enter a unique reel number every time. Enter the Reel name on the Logging tab, and put a check in the 'Prompt' box.
Click on the Clip Settings tab to define what you want to capture:
Audio and Video, just Video, or just Audio. The default, 'Audio & Video, ch1 & ch 2' will be good for most situations.
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Use the Spacebar to start the tape. Press 'I' at your In point. When you come to the end of the take, press the Log Clip button which sets the Out point and opens the Log Clip dialog box.
You will get a dialog window if you have put a check in the 'Prompt' box.
Name it, write any comment in the Log Note box, and check the 'Mark Good' box for the takes you like best, then OK. The tape should continue to roll and is ready for you to mark the next In point. At this point you are simply logging your captures. The red line through the clip icons indicates that they are 'offline' (not captured yet).
This method doesn't capture any clips to the HD; it creates a LOG, in the Browser, of all the shots on your tape. When you have finished Logging, you can select the takes with which you want to begin editing, and Batch Capture only those. All the takes you have marked as good will have a check mark by them in the 'Good' column of the Browser for easy reference.
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 Batch Capture
With clips selected in the Browser, go to File>Batch Capture. Choose 'All Selected Clips', and OK.
All the information about the clips you want to capture is presented in this Batch Capture dialog.
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Handles
You can specify extra seconds to be added to the head and tail of each clip as it is captured. This makes up for reaction time as you press your In and Out points. Your logging should be fairly loose anyway, with at least several extra seconds at head and tail.
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Speed Logging
If you want to quickly separate a reel into individual clips: uncheck the 'Prompt' box, enter a name in the 'Label' field, start the tape playing and enter a first 'In' point. Every time you hit 'F2' (at the end of each clip), a new clip will be created in the logging bin, with incremented numbers attached to the original name. The tape will not stop rolling, and you will not be given a dialog box to write log notes, or rename the clips.
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Option 2: Capture Whole Tape, then make clips
- Put your first tape in camera.
- Open Log & Capture under the File menu.
- Enter the Reel name on the Logging tab.
- Click on the Clip Settings tab to define what you want to capture.
- Click on the Scratch disk tab to make sure these are correct.
- Start the reel playing, and click on the 'Capture Now' button.
- Let the entire tape if you have HD space, be captured
- In the Save dialog box that opens, navigate to the Capture Scratch folder that you designated in your Preferences. You will know you have found it when you see a greyed out 'Untitled 0000' in the folder.
- Name it, save it, and then close the clip window.
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Ripple Delete:
To remove the selected piece without leaving a gap, hold down Shift and press Delete.
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Put edit points around the section you want to remove, or select an entire clip. Then hold down Shift as you press Delete. The selection will be deleted and the space closed up.
SAVE
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You'll notice that these new smaller clips all have the same name.
Option-click on one of them and select 'Properties' from the pop-up menu that appears. (Or choose 'Item Properties' from the Edit menu.)
Change the name of each new clip to something relevant and descriptive.
Next, select all the clips in the Timeline (Edit>Select All or cmd-A with the Timeline active).
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You can drag all of the clips into the Browser (or to a specific bin in the Browser), and they will appear as separate clips. At this point, they all refer to the one master clip on the scratch disk.
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